User blog comment:Cpt Crimson/DmC sales way lower than dmc4's/@comment-134861-20130203050602/@comment-976055-20130203201025

Why do people keep saying that DmC Sparda is "mediocre?" He was seemingly second only to the Demon King, being his leiutenant (although he still might have been stronger), and his capture was done to draw away the ire from his sons - he wasn't simply defeated.

There's still some potential legendary themes and all that, but when you look at the classic DMC, Sparda was just this all-powerful dude who did anything and everything. That's not really all that exciting of a legend, and the only interesting thing it did was make Dante go through the trouble of "cleaning up his dad's mess," and just living in the impossibly large and boring shadow of his father until he ultimately surpassed him, and became just as boring. Sparda Sparda Sparda. Nearly nothing in the classic series happens because of things Dante does himself, it's all just because Sparda did something before that. Seriously, in DMC's universe, Sparda did like...everything worth doing.

Like Steamygoreng says, it's great that in DmC they actuall decided to make Dante and Vergil the stars, instead of everything being solely about how they're the "Sons of Sparda."